Nathaniel Rackowe FRSS and Amy Stephens FRSS In Conversation

Join us for a fourth edition of Material Encounters, a new online series of talks presented by independent curator and cultural producer Isabel de Vasconcellos. 

Each conversation pairs two Fellows of the Society and invites them to zoom in on a shared element of their practice: to unpack how they work with a particular material or process, exploring what draws them to it and how it has come to define their sculptural language. 

For our next conversation on Wednesday 24 June we are pleased to have Amy Stephens FRSS and Nathaniel Rackowe FRSS. Register and join! 

Amy Stephens FRSS 

Underpinned by geology and travel, Amy Stephens is interested in how we reuse, recycle and re-appropriate everyday materials from our daily environment. The artist's intention is to celebrate artefacts in a considered way to generate a new perspective about time and our appreciation of the landscape. 

Nathaniel Rackowe FRSS 

My often large-scale urban referenced structures, and light sculptures are designed to recreate the experience of navigating the city around us. They are abstracted impressions of metropolitan experience evoked through the vicissitudes of light as it fluctuates through the city.

Isabel de Vasconcellos is an independent curator and cultural producer, with extensive experience collaborating with artists and visual arts organisations to realise world-class public commissions and exhibitions. She writes on contemporary art, photography and design, and is the author of Fourth Plinth: How London Created the Smallest Sculpture Park in the World.